How to Install Visual Studio Code in Ubuntu, Mint, Elementary

Announced at the Build 2015 event, Microsoft has been launched a desktop code editor application called Visual Studio Code, Thanks to Microsoft for release a cross-platform code editor that runs on Linux (also with Windows and Mac OS X).

In this post we will take a quick look what is Visual Studio Code and how to install it in Ubuntu, Mint, and Elementary OS.

What’s in Visual Studio Code ?

Visual Studio Code has been built with a mix of open-source and web-based technologies, like GitHub Electron app framework and Chromium. The tool is not a fully fledged IDE (Integrated Development Environment).

Visual Studio Code also available to install using Ubuntu Make, a handy set of CLI tools for quickly installing the IDEs. To install Visual Studio Code through Ubuntu Make, you need to run the following commands: